An interesting development has taken place. I think I have a coach. Her name is Christine Arsenault. She herself has swam lake Ontario, and her 14yr old daughter Trinity is currently the youngest-person record holder for the lake. I kind of stumbled upon them as I was looking for additional masters programs in Niagara. The Brock one is great and I'm enjoying it, but that still leaves me 3 or 4 days of the week that I'm training on my own at the YMCA. Let me tell you, it is difficult to be motivated swimming against yourself....the YMCA is also grossly warm, and weirdly dark.
I met with Christine at her home 2 days ago and was inundated with SO much information. I will be starting to swim with the Tuesday morning masters group out of the Kiwanis centre that Christine coaches. She also has offered to create a training plan for me and help me navigate all the logistics of preparing for this kind of swim. AND she has an alternative to the $5000 that I am super keen on.
I'm going to swim at Ridley pool so she can look at my stroke. She seems really confident that I can do this. Like more confident than me and she had literally only known me for 20 minutes.
I totalled up my milage from January + February and I've swam 52 km over the last two months. Just to give some perspective: 52 km is the distance of the traditional route across lake Ontario. Trinity and Christine both swam it in under 24 hours. Again, another humbling moment for me as I am looking at 19.2km for Erie.
Ankle update: Lucy and Rebecca- my massage/chiropractic angels say my ankle will be fine. It's fine to keep swimming, and eventually I'll be able to run.
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